Isaiah 59:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Calleth

Trust

And speak

Isaiah 59:3

Psalm 62:4

They conceive

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Calleth

And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness -- it sustained Him.

Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed -- without judgment.

Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt with a net.

Trust

Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are they!

And speak

For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

They conceive

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

General references

Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these are the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.